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Alright, you win.  Those of us who love winter and cold and snow have now reached the threshold - it is brutally cold out there!

Time to think spring....and rabbits pulling magicians out of hats--a wonderful 1945 ad for Schlitz beer--it was yellowed--it was faded--but we just HAD to bring it back! SO WORTH A SECOND LOOK. https://www.flickr.com/photos/22283683@N07/16023939313/

And Paul Race has come up with an outstanding collection of spring houses--for Valentine's Day, Candlemas, St. Pat's and Easter--if you can wrap a package, you CAN make these!  Click on the photo...but first...

Paul's February 2015 Trains-N-Towns™, the Official Newsletter of BIGIndoorTrains.com, BIGChristmasTrains.com, and HalloweenTrains.com is now online. 

This newsletter serves families who like O Scale trains and Christmas Trains, including those who are interested in combining On30, O gauge, or vintage toy trains with collectible villages or vintage accessories. It is produced in conjunction with the Big Indoor Trains(tm) and Big Christmas Trains(tm) web sites.

Topics discussed in this update include:

• Free Spring-Themed Building Projects - A whole new holiday village in the style of the vintage lithographed structures that graced many tinplate railroads in the early 1900s. This set celebrates Spring, and fits on a kind of box that many folks have too many of this time of year.
• Clever Models Free Downloads - Realistic buildings you can also make from cardboard.
• Cardboard Marx Station Find - In case you think that making your buildings out of cardboard is a new practice, a vintage cardboard station comes to light.
• Vintage O and S Train Photos Galore -Our BigIndoorTrains.com forum pages are collecting some very nice photos of vintage trains, as well as vintage magazine ads for trains.
• Add Spring Color to Your Holiday Village or Indoor Railroad - Tired of waiting for spring? You can bring spring to your railroad or village easily enough, with some scrounged weed heads and a little paint. 
• And if you're having trouble with any of the above links, just go here  http://www.bigindoortrains.com/trains_n_towns/15_02_newsletter_indoor.htm 

And...

Howard has started a new "faux flattie": a caroling family; click on the link and keep scrolling down the page for all the details http://www.cardboardchristmas.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=818

70th anniversary of Iwo Jima http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2015/02/70th-anniversary-of-iwo-jima.html

WANT MORE VINTAGE? GO HERE  http://www.everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2015/02/more-fabulous-vintage-websites-finds_23.html